Re: [Jack-Devel] Major update of jack2 build system

On 04/11/2015 07:05 PM, Karl Lindén wrote: [1]. The initial intent was to simply remove automagic dependencies (on celt, opus, libsamplerate, libsndfile, readline), which are bad [2] for source based distributions, such as Gentoo, but after a discussion [3] the decision was taken to reimplement all options that have third-party dependencies using a special option class, so that the build system by default builds against foo if available, refrains from doing so if --foo=no is given and if --foo=yes the dependency is hard-required. To preserve backwards compatibility (and save time writing "=yes") --foo is the same as --foo=yes. of only header checks. (It is bad to just check for headers without checking for the accompanying library.) This eases packaging (and cross-compiling) somewhat. Also the check for readline has been improved (it now checks for header existence too instead of just library existence), in effect making it easier to compile jack2 on binary distros (where the library existence does not imply header existence). (Correct me if I'm wrong; I have not compiled jack2 on a binary distro.) Well, now users do not have to explicitly state --alsa, --firewire or such to get the correct backend built since it will be automatically detected if --alsa, --firewire, etc. is not given. introduce some bugs that I have not found during testing. (I did test the option I could with both --foo=yes and --foo=no!) Some option have not been tested at all since I lack the prerequisites, these options are --iio, --portaudio and --winmme, but since all option use the same class the logic should be the same, so they should work, but you can never be too sure. (as always!) when building jack2. Report the bugs and I will do my very best to squash them! https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Automagic_dependenci… Is the windows specific stuff actually needed to be tested? Waf builds on windows doesn't seem to work (for me) anyway. I think I remember widows builds are only done with a Code::Blocks IDE project? Or does anyone cross compile for windows?